How Irrigation Changed Yuma

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The essay that you will be reading will be about the yuma project it's good times and bad times. You will also be reading about how irrigation changed yuma in plenty ways what was the efficiency and what were the downfalls and what they did to accomplish and progress from the downfalls. You are also going to read about how much water they were losing and what they did too not lose so much water. There is also going to be somethings that i didn't know that i know how you're going to read how yuma use to be just a little place peer sand and no street. Yuma was filled with water because it flooded. Yuma was going in the wrong path and irrigation cost so much and it wouldn't be able to only one person to try and buy everything for the yuma project.so …show more content…
The ways that the irrigation changed yuma was that the lands were very extremely fertile and productive and capable of enormous crops.The 80 percent of water that we had would go to agriculture. Giving away land will harm the economy in foods,security,and etc.The model of efficiency was to try and save water in dams so we would have not lost too much. They gave up to 2.8 billion into the yuma economy. The water diverted to other farms so the water decreased its percent since 1990. To progress they tried making dams that can hold at least 22 inches of water.So irrigation changed yuma because we were no longer losing too much water we had better fields better crops and better efficiency. The people that were in yuma at the time maybe were mad because they were losing too much water and the crops would flood so that is why they started making dams as deep as they can so they stored the water and they stopped losing the amount of water they were losing.It helped yuma by a lot because we hardly get rain here we get more like dust.

Irrigation took a big place in this situation because they were losing crops or they would get too much water and then die out later on. The irrigation progress also had some bad idea because they use to travel down the colorado river to deliver crops and goods and bring back goods but now they can’t do all that because the river has hardly water and a boat doesn't have enough water so they can sail.The tract of 50,000 to 60,000 acres of alluvial bottom land extending 25 miles south of yuma to the mexican boundary. The irrigation progress was

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